‘Get over the alarmism’: Readers say ID cards work well abroad as Starmer’s plan sparks division
PThe LANs are divided to offer a digital identity scheme in the UK Independent Many of them are readers who have experienced experiences abroad.
Many pointed out that most European countries have already employed identity card systems without discussing. A reader said that an identity card in Spain is required for daily tasks, and another was “much easier” in countries where a driving license or passport is not necessary as a de facto identity certificate.
From Estonia to Sweden, readers, some of them are decentralized through banks, others emphasized how different identity models exist in both cases, but integrated and integrated into daily life.
Those living abroad, cards are “incredibly useful ve and should be introduced in England decades ago, he said.
Supporters argued that confidentiality concerns are exaggerated at a time when people deliver data through applications and online services, and that a universal card could make it simpler for access services.
Others remained skeptical only in a digital system, risks for the elderly, potential hacking and excessive access by the state. Nevertheless, many admitted that the principle of an identity card was not afraid.
Here is what you have to say:
Not compulsory in Italy
We have a digital identity in Italy, but it is absolutely not compulsory.
It is designed to help people access services.
It is not designed to prevent people from accessing services.
By the way, if your phone is stolen in Italy, a devil’s job to restore your digital identity.
This will not save Starmer’s skin.
Yetanothername
Sweden’s decentralized model
For all residents used by public institutions such as the tax agency for civil registration, I lived in Sweden with a system focused on the personal identity number (PIN), a basic number established at birth. Although the popular bank is a common digital authentication tool used for both the government and private services, it is naturally a solution to a certain degree of decentralization.
On the other hand, the proposed compulsory UK digital identity will be a unified, digital identity knowledge approved by the government, which is intended to be the only real source of all adults for the right to live and work. The main difference lies in the nature of the data: Sweden’s system is a well -established identity that can be connected to a digital identity operated by the bank; The proposed UK scheme will create a new, compulsory, central government database of digital identities, creating a significant greater risks and function creep for civil freedoms and privacy, and mass surveillance and disaster data violations.
Starmer’s idea shifts the balance of power towards the state as the Swedish model has greatly avoided.
Dog bird
Time to overcome alarmism
Almost all other European countries have an identity card and the sky did not fall. Every time this idea swim, it’s time to overcome alarmism and the British exception.
Since the driver’s license is used as a actual identity card and most of us use a large amount of data when we use an application or when we do something online, the argument of privacy loses its power.
I want to see some evidence that the system they decide to use is safe, but I fully support a universal identity card principle that will act as a proof of identity and authority for all official purposes.
Tanaquil2
Digital obsession
After living abroad, I have no problem of identity, but digital obsession is ridiculous-old (80-year-old father fights a smartphone)? It may be attacked by digital and what happens when the phones are stolen and the grill falls or your phone provider? I prefer some plastic with my biometric data like abroad.
Bubbles40
Easy Travel with ID Cards
When my brother recently came to visit me in Spain, I didn’t get him a train ticket to Portugal before, because they needed the identity that everyone in Spain already had.
It was necessary to buy a passport to buy your ticket because it involves crossing the boundaries of the journey. It is much easier with an ID card. The form is more or less the same throughout the EU.
Freelife
Trouble about nothing
Spread about nothing. It should be introduced decades ago. After living in countries where identity cards are required, I can only talk about experience and say that they are incredibly useful.
Instead of focusing on negativity, why cannot we have a discussion about how positively this technology will be used to increase the existing range of services and opportunities of the individual?
Carnabyswhiskers
A solution in search of a problem
Digital identity (not a physical identity card that is the same as a passport or driver license) has long been a solution to a problem for a long time. Communist countries such as China and Vietnam use it to force the harmony. Digital identity can be used to check what you buy, how often you can travel and travel.
Go back to the “survey tax” period. It wasn’t the demonstrations that forced the government to withdraw, it was incompatibility. People who refused to pay stopped the survey tax. With digital identity, the government can take this money directly from the bank accounts or freeze the bank accounts of those who do not pay.
Regardless of your views on the “survey tax”, the government will eventually be something you don’t want to do. Médecins can now decide that you cannot donate to a charity like Sans Frontières. It may decide to rational food. He may think that you can’t enjoy chocolate, alcohol or cigarette anymore. Would you like to participate in a show in London because you think of it as a noble reason? Travel with digital identity can be easily rejected.
Then there are medical problems. Forced treatments are easy to apply with digital identity. It is easy to see a scenario with two healthy kidney “inefficient” someone to give to a “productive” member of the society. Does your son, your daughter or grandson refuse to be arranged? All families can be “punished” collectively until they change their mind.
Does it sound like dystopia? Because it is. But don’t worry – this government wants to make it easier for you to finish your life, and then they will get both kidneys.
This should be resisted, like all cruelty. During the “Chinese flu”, the abuse of power was the trial version. Now they know it fell for it, they think you’ll fall for it.
Antondupont
Estonia shows a different way
Okay, now it’s real. Estonia uses a established physical biometric identity card with various anti-fermi elements; Consider the NI card with the NI card of your personal number (Non -citizens have a similar residence card with a unique number different from that of citizens).
In Estonia, they went one step further with a facility that can be kept on a smartphone (instead) with connections to a special E -Posta account for each person. In total, there is no problem with only 1.3 million people (citizens and others).
Now the UK ‘plan’ is to have this digitally on the individual’s smartphone (which finances it?). When we talk about manipulating images and pixels, it is not only a digital safe system. Why Plan? This is to cause disgust of the British to have a photography license with its addresses and personal information (this is the same as the EU -diameter ID card, but biometric fingerprints and data must be with a biometric chip).
In addition, do we need to remind the history of England about IT -based ideas?
Jonathan Mills
Why all the fuss?
There were Britain’s past identity cards, why all the fuss!?
Improved digital identity cards now have multi-purpose uses depending on the country-as well as forces, driver permits, social and health services, donor status, disabled people and so on.
Gembay
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